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(No Model.)

S. H. RANDALL.

PHOTOGRAPH BURNISHER. No. 897,309. Patented Feb. 5, 1889.

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SILAS ll. RAYDAIA), ()F \VYOMING, OHIO ASSIUXOR ()l ONE-l [AI/t T0 JAMES I). RANDAIIL, ()1? SAME PLACE.

PHOTOGRAPH-BURNISHEIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,309, dated February 5, 1889.

Application filed July 6, 1888. Serial No. 279,191. (No model.)

To all whom it may 007000772.-

lcylindrical boxes I I, capable of a limited Be it known that I, SILAS ll. RANDALL, a vertical adjustment within the standards A citizen of the United States,residing at \Vyo- 'lning, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in Photograph-Burnishers and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains 10 make and use the same.

My invention comprises a novel construction of those machines which impart a polished surface to photographs by passing them between a feed-roller and a stationary bu rnish ing-bar, the details of the improvements being hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

I11 the annexed drawings, Figure l a front elevation of a machine embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the upper portion of the machine. Fig. l is an end elevation thereof. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the upper portion of the machine, said section being taken in the plane of the temper-screw c. Fig. 6 is an enlarged'section of one of the balland-socket bearings that support theburnishing-bar holder.

A B represent the standards or end plates of the frame of the machine, which standards are united in front by a pair of longitudinal bars, C D, the upper bar, C, having a temperscrew, 0, tapped in it, the point of said screw being in contact with the trough shaped holder E, that carries the burnishing-bar.

Holder E has at its ends lateral lugs F F,

roller, H, the periphery of which is roughened to afford an effective hold upon the back of the photograph the ends of the roller being provided with journals h 7r, housed within l urthermore said B. This adjustment is effected by the devices seen in Fig. at, wherein J is a set-screw bearing upon the upper surface of the box I, and K is a screw pressing up against said box. L represents one or morelugs bearingagainst the front of this box. .I K are the adjusting-screws of the other box, I.

M is a crank attached to the journal 71'.

c e are stops on the upper-surface of holder E, which stopsbear against projections of the standards, as seen in Fig. l. and thus prevent direct contact of the bar (l and roller H.

\Ylren this machine is properly adjusted, the screws J K and .I h are sctso as to level the feed-roller ll and cause it to be exactly parallel with the lnu-nishing-bar G, the passage between said roller and bar being regulated by the temper-screw c. jet is then used for heating the holder E, the vertical walls of which compel the smoke to escape at its open ends. After the bar has become worn, the screws 5 are loosened, and said bar is turned over, so as to bring a new surface into use, the screws being again tight ened after this changehas been effected.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination, in a photograph-burnisher, of a 'feedaroll,Il,two vertically-adjustable jonrnal-boxes, I I, held. by opposing setscrews J K J K against bearings I. of the main frame, as herein. described.

2. The combiimtion, in a photograplrburnisher, of an adjustable burn ishing-bar holder, E, swung upon the main frame, and a screw, C, whereby said holder is adjusted, which screw projects from the main frame against the holder on the side of its attachments to said holder and below them, as herein described.

3. The combination, in a photograph-burnisher, of a burnisher swung upon a pair of pivots, an intermediate regulating-screw by which said burnisher is raised and lowered, and a feed-roll journaled in independently vertically-adjustable boxes, the axis of said roll being normally parallel to the axis of said pivots, as herein described.

a. The combination, in a photograph-bur- A lamp or gasnisher, of a main frame, a Vertically-adjusti In testimony whereofI affix my signature in able feed-roll, a burnishing-bar, a swung bnrthe presence of two witnesses. nishing-bar holder, and a screw whereby the =T holder is adjusted, which screw projects from bILA RAB DALI" 5 the main frame against said holder upon the \Vitnesses:

' side of its attachments to the main frame and 3 JAMES H. LAYMAN,

below tl1em,-as herein described. 1

v FRANCIS B. JAMES. 

